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Hey — Your Green Salad Should Be Green.

Please stop dumping so much crap in it.

When certain people make a green salad — they add a bunch of stuff to the lettuce: radishes, green onion, tomatoes, cucumber, carrots, and cauliflower or whatever else is hanging out in the fridge.

They throw the entire works in a bowl and call it a day.

And that is fine. If you like that kind of thing.

Rainbow salad. For you and the leprechauns.

Listen. I love all variations of salad. Raw fresh corn, cilantro, radishes, and lime juice? Bring it on! Oranges with slices of red onion and parsley? Sign me up.

But when it comes to a green salad — hit the brakes!

For me, my heart lies in France. The home of the Verde (Green) Salade (Salad).

Adding any other colored vegetable to a green salad gets you an exclamation of:

“MERDE!” (SH*T!)

Salads should be good local lettuce with a good, light dressing, not every vegetable on the planet shredded and covered in poppy seed-honey dressing and mixed with tooth-breaking, packaged, stale-as-sh*t croutons.

So there.

So green salad means only green things, people. Keep it simple.

What counts as green?

Local lettuce. Beet greens. Spinach. Parsley or basil leaves. A little green onion. Chopped dill. Cucumber. Broccoli. Celery. Avocado. Pea shoots. That kind of thing. Think GREEN and don’t throw them all in at once. Pick 3–5 ingredients including the lettuce.

(Although I do cheat a little and add a dusting of Parmesan Reggiano cheese and some chopped walnuts.)

And then, of course, the salad greens should be bite-size which is why I’m a big fan of…

Your goal?

A nice bowl full of chopped (not torn) bite-sized greens that are lightly dressed with homemade salad dressing — preferably a vinegarette.

Soul-Saving Salad Dressing

A simple homemade salad dressing so you stop buying the sad bottled stuff.

medium.com

Oh boy. You really need to be using homemade salad dressing. Because salad dressing bought from the store is a sad, sad thing for your tastebuds and your health.

Why do you want bite-sized pieces only? So you don’t have a large piece of lettuce hit your nose or chin. That’s why. (It’s also a sneaky way to get more green goodness into your body.)

Eating a green salad should be a graceful experience.

The secret to any lightly dressed salad? Especially a green one?

Use half the dressing you think you need.

Toss the salad and dressing in the bowl 20 times. Taste it. If it needs a little more — add a little more. I kid you not. It works.

Ever had a salad that had too much dressing or not enough?

This solves all that crushing salad disappointment.

P.S. Count to 20 in your head while tossing the salad or people will think you’re losing it.

Thanks for reading! I have loads of food essays (delicious recipes too) and thoughtful and quirky simpler living essays waiting for you. (Well over 100 of them!) And this story caught the attention of NBC News In New York!